MONTGOMERY TWP. — Three people had to be extricated from their vehicles after a two-car, head-on crash Sunday afternoon along the Route 202 Parkway between County Line Road and Horsham Road in Montgomery Township, according to officials at the scene.

More than two-dozen EMS, fire and police vehicles responded to the accident — which occurred around 3:30 p.m. — lined the stretch of road, which was closed off to traffic so that three medevac helicopters could land on the parkway.

At the scene, Fire Department of Montgomery Township Chief Bill Wiegman said that one of the three extricated people from the severely damaged vehicles — a silver Ford Escape SUV and a black Saturn LW200 wagon — was “in and out of consciousness.” Wiegman said the others were “conscious and alert,” and did not know the total number of people in the two cars at the time of the crash, or how many injuries there were in total.

Neither Wiegman nor other authorities at the scene would confirm the genders or ages of those injured.

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One person could be seen being wheeled on a stretcher to a waiting helicopter and airlifted from the scene. Authorities at the accident site had no details on the extent of injuries or to which hospitals the injured were taken.

Pieces of car littered the road around the two vehicles, both with mangled front ends.

Several people who had been walking or biking on the trail along the Parkway watched as emergency responders worked to clear the scene.

One woman, who said she lived a half-block away, said that she heard what sounded like “a big explosion.”

“I didn’t hear any skidding,” she said, adding that she came out to see what had happened “after we heard all the ambulances and firetrucks and the helicopters — I knew something really bad had happened.”

She said she saw one woman and two men pulled from the vehicles by emergency responders.

Wiegman said that the accident was still under investigation and authorities would provide more information as it becomes available.

Montgomery Township police, fire crews from Montgomery Township, Warrington, Chalfont, Hilltown and North Wales, and medics from Volunteer Medical Service Corps, Chalfont and Ambler all responded to the scene, according to Wiegman.